Ramifications

I bought a face mask from the shop last week on line and it said, only a few remaining. I know that doesn't really help much. 

I see what you dung there

As long as the clubs stable I don’t care.

To counter this:
1) You literally only have two players in the team who score any goals. 
2) The midfield trio would pass it between themselves for 5 minutes before it goes back to our GK who pumps it long and we lose it.
3) I get fans not liking Forsyth but the outlet ball he offers from our GK on a long kick is huge. What do you do with this team if we are forced to go long?
4) The sheer defensive work rate of Knight is immense. He also makes countless runs and he’s always in the opposite box. Plus the amount of free kicks he wins buys time and energy conversation. He has to be the first man in the team hands down.

Can't remember that level of detail, but I was there. ST holder since '67.  Oh, those halcyon days.  Sadly, I won't see them again in my lifetime, but my son might!! COYR.

Stearman? He was great against WBA

Marshall I'd let go as well as Baldock. Despite Bielik being immensely talented someone at his age having 2 ACL's already is a massive risk and I can't see anyone coming in for him at this point. If I had to let academy products go, I'd be looking at Buchanan and Bird. Buchanan because we have a habit of producing wingbacks atm and have williams waiting in the wings and Bird because I think he's a lesser talent than Thomson and knight at this point. I'd try to hang on to everyone else if at all possible.  

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/01/04/wayne-rooney-has-put-Derby-county-sight-miracle/

This lot don't look bored! ?
 
 

I personally think Colin KR would'nt be as effective starting and the same goes for Ebosele. Knight, Plange and Jozwiak kept their defence busy and bringing on two fresh and both different attacking players bamboozled the defence.  Lawrence had a quiet game and could have scored, the same goes for Ravel when he came on. They are very much the same in their positions on the pitch and I don't think you can play both at the same time for long periods in a match.
 

Echo calls for Curtis again. What a player he’s been for us, particularly this season. God knows where we’d be without him.

There are a lot of players who have been exceptional, all showing some
real class at times.
Jags in particular, but for sheer consistency  i'd have to go with Curtis Davis
how many times during a game does he come up with an important block, header etc..
and it know seems he's going to be scoring as well!
An absolute club legend, and he was on the verge of retiring about 2 years ago, thank God
he's still with us  ?

Will be interesting how we go into the next league game, I like the set up we’ve been going with. As much as I love CKR and Ebosele they both seem to suit being impact players. Imagine after 60 minutes of keeping Plange/Knight/Joz/Lawrence quiet your suddenly introduced two fresh and physical players one that will rough you up and another that will run through you (quite literally). Sounds harsh on Kazim but 3/3 from the bench… Plange has the important role of running them ragged for 60 minutes first though. 
 
I wouldn’t be surprised if we name a strong squad for Saturday either, FA cup runs would add some needed income. 

Only seem to turn up against the big sides ?
I understand the pedigree Jagielka has, but why did we drop Stearman after his MOM performance?

If the EFL rules require it to go to arbitration, not the courts, then surely Middlesborough and Wycombe will have broken EFL rules and should be punished in some way?

All Nixon speculation obviously, and I note everybody remains fixated on Boro and Wycombe, but Morris also wants £20m to let ‘his’ stadium go to the new owners. ‘One of our own’ my arse. Suck it up Morris. Your mismanagement put us in this doodah and still you can’t walk away without trying to recover monies that would be better earmarked to ensure first the survival, and then the regeneration, of the Club.

Same starting line up. Have to reward those who've been playing their hearts out. Be prepared to make subs on the hour mark though. Wazza has seemed more decisive and quicker to change things up recently so that'd be my game plan, but he's not got much wrong in recent weeks so I'd be confident in whatever side he selects right now.
On that note, dropping Ravel and the King has been an absolute masterstroke as they've been properly pumped when called upon having looked leggy beforehand. Coming out like uncaged lions now. CKR has clearly hated not starting but has responded brilliantly to the challenge. He seems so calm in the critical moments right now which is a new and very welcome development. He and Ravel also developing an almost psychic understanding and the latter now clearly understanding that he doesn't have to do it all himself. A lot of mutual respect between those two lads and it's a joy to see. And are we seeing Ravel finally start to settle at a club and could that unleash the extra gears I feel certain he possesses? Pretty sure the King has taken him under his wing as there's some commonality there in terms of their backgrounds and history. 
Back on strategy, giving a rampaging Festy 30 minutes against tiring legs seems to work brilliantly too. He's a player who clearly loves the game and as some good judges on here predicted, he's even more of a handful running from deeper. Some real healthy competition for game time at the moment then, despite the low head count. Jozwiak also looking like the player we see on international breaks now, possibly because those around him are playing better? I'm certain it's just a lack of confidence that's stymied his progress but he looks a different prospect in a side playing with a bit more confidence. I'm sure too that he and others are responding to the fans. Gone are the groans and moans at every little mistake, now replaced with the most staunch support in the EFL. Can't underestimate how that helps the players, especially those a tad short on confidence.
Nod to Stearman too who seems a model pro giving plenty every time he gets his chance and clearly not sulking when he doesn't. We look like a proper team at the moment rather than a collective of individuals. Wazza galvanising the players into a side that reminds me of Sheffield under Wilder so he clearly has more man-management skills than I'd supposed. There are a few sides we absolutely can't match man for man in terms of raw ability, but we do have some quality too and none can match our lads for team spirit right now.
Last unheralded member of a team on fire, who clearly deserves a big up is our very own @Inverurie Ram for the quality match threads. Inspirational AND informative. Keep working your magic fella! Another 2 or 3 weeks and you'll have dragged us close to achieving the impossible. Legendary status awaits! 

Ive thought for several years that our players lacked desire and workrate for the championship, and that any team who really apply these two basic requirements, and then add a little experience and quality, would do well in this league. Wayne has done this to a tee and he is clearly a great motivator and reasonable tactician. People underrate his football knowledge because all they hear is a working class Scouse lad. But, when it comes to football, Wayne truly understands "the game".

Well Mr. Morris, i wonder how you are feeling just lately regarding DCFC.
If you had concentrated on "your" club instead of being besotted with picking fights with the EFL you would have seen your aspirations  of half the team being made up of academy players realised and taking the credit for it.
As things stand at the minute those young players who play with heart and soul every match may well be sold to rectify the mess you left us in.
I hope you are happy with yourself Mr. Morris because i'm certainly not happy with you and that's putting it mildly. I daren't post what i think or a ban would be coming my way.
Happy New Year.

A win takes us 11 points from safety and 4 from Barnsley. COYR!

Before both of those two great eras, there were dark, bleak times and the club only just survived.
Things will get good again. Ying and Yang.
Also....
"Things will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, it's not the end."

If the club survives I think Rooney has the potential to be the most influential Derby manager of my lifetime (I should mention I'm only 24 before you start twatting the keyboard). Even if this is his last season with us, the siege mentality he's created could have a lasting effect on the club.
I'm particularly thinking about the relationship between the club and the fans when I say this. I'll leave the tactical stuff to our resident football geniuses.
I hate Leeds and their fans as much as the next Ram but the relationship they have with their teams is almost second to none. They went to hell and back but on their way down the divisions they gained a siege mentality. They have a bravado/arrogance to their fanbase that can seem distasteful to the outside but is incredibly galvanising for the players/staff. They also don't boo them.
Pride Park is different this season, the fans still showing up are generating the best atmosphere I've been a part of and there's 10,000 less of us. If we keep that, a club the size of ours will be successful without having to chuck too much money around.
If we're getting results now with washed up free agents, academy players and 39 year old CB's, imagine what it's going to be like when we have a decent team again. The supporters getting an extra 10/20% out of the players will only get us so far and affect the table so much now but if we'd had more of that in those season's with promotion potential (13/14, 14/15, 15/16, 17/18, 18/19) maybe we wouldn't be in this mess.
I don't take what Rooney's doing this year for granted, under the leadership of a lesser man the atmosphere could be utterly toxic the way it has been in recent tough periods. No offence to a great servant to the club but imagine if Darren Wassall was in charge of this team! Rooney's got this hopeless team in a hopeless situation playing with more guts than anyone else, if he wasn't doing that we'd be gaining nothing from our fall. 
Maybe Rooney isn't a tactical mastermind but he's used what he has got to keep everyone's heads up; despite everything going on we feel like a "big club".
I'm an optimist but I'm hoping we'll look back at the Rooney years as the period in which our support went from quite good to up there with the best in the country. That's something that will attract players, get us results we don't deserve and make the experience of watching Derby simply more fun, even if we're poo.

Expected us to get battered today. We usually struggle against big, physical teams, even if they're not actually particularly good. With the quality West Brom have, I anticipated a heavy loss.
In the end, we made them look poor. OK, we didn't look brilliant ourselves, but 1-0 was a fair result overall. 
I was particularly impressed with Allsop. OK, the save at the end was excellent, but even before that, he looked really assured. He didn't have many saves to make, but some of that was down to his excellent positioning. 
Bizarrely, without the points deduction, we are 8 points off the play offs. In a normal season, a good transfer window and we might have been shooting for 6th by April. 
The atmosphere was excellent again. There's a lot to like about this squad, this manager and this club at present. 
 

We need 12 wins, 4 draws and 7 defeats then. Well we have lost 7 in the 1st half of the season, so we have to match that in the 2nd half. Double our wins and cut down on the draws. !2 winnable games, Cardiff home and away, Reading away, Sheff Utd home, Brum home, Hull home, Peterboro home, Barnsley home, Preston home, Bristol home, Blackpool away and one other which could be a surprise/shock result. 4 draws could come from  Stoke away, Forest away, Swansea away and QPR away.
But this will only happen if we start scoring more goals, Plange, Stretton or an incoming striker in the transfer window ?                                 I think its a tall order, but not impossible, we will have to see.